Dhuʾayb
ذؤيب
Say it dhu-AYB
Little wolf
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- dh-ʾ-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Dhuayb, Thuaib, Zuayb
Meaning & source
A diminutive of dhiʾb, the wolf; Lisān lists Dhuʾāb and Dhuʾayb as names.
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وذُؤَابٌ وذُؤَيْبٌ: اسْمانِ.
Who carried this name
- Dhuʾayb ibn Ḥalḥalah al-Khuzāʿī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2495 (vol. 2, p. 351)